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The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.


Mike Royko


#appropriate #because #city #city hall #cons

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.


John Ruskin


#ceases #deprived #enjoyed #just #light

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.


John Ruskin


#does #ever #greatest #greatest thing #human

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.


John Ruskin


#clearly #prophecy #religion #see

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?


Bertrand Russell


#beautiful #been #chimney #does #hoot

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.


Paul Ryan


#control #debt #got #propose #proposed

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.


George Santayana


#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.


Edward Sapir


#both #common #concerned #constructed #far

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.


Greta Scacchi


#great #had #having #lean #now

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#hand #hands #history #however #inferior






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